WARNING: contains content some might consider "racist" Some people just display their ignorance in public and it bugs the heck out of me, especially when they try to rope me into it. I was at the little store down the street which was bought by a very nice family of folks from Ethiopia. The man...

I stayed home sick today - stomach flu, it feels like. Light food (nothing else stays down) and lots of bedrest. In fact, I've slept the morning away already. Little Feet has been sleeping close by, as has Dulce Mae, so I'm well nursed. The surprise was that Little Boy was sitting in the doorway...

Some new pictures of the kitties, including Caliban as boytoy :oP and a sleeping place that Caliban inherited from Frank. Pics starting he http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/detail?.dir=f923&.dnm=fc23.jpg&.src=ph or http://tinyurl.com/btgjz --

After we look over the cards, I take them to work and pin them up in my cubicle. One of the sales guys notices the cat theme and tells me, "I love MY cat." I'll have to be sure and introduce him to RPCA. One of the ladies who always stops in to cadge a peppermint tells me, "You must be very...

It is 20 days since my Hugo Katt went to the Bridge and my house is totally purr-less. I read your requests for purrs and realise I've got no purrs to send, being a useless purrer myself. Now I have visited a cat named Potter, a big lovely tuxedo boy, and gathered some purrs from him. So today I am...

I am so very sorry that I haven't been able to keep up with the purrs lately. I do scan the ng for purr requests and send purrs and light candles as requested but I also know that it means so much more when someone takes the time to say they're thinking of you. I'll try to do better in the days to...

I'm sure Shamrock feels very abused tonight. His Depo shot came in the mail today, and it's a big needle. Plus, he had to get his dose of Clomicalm (daily) and today is his 2x weekly day for allergy shot. I think we're going to give the Atopica drug a shot for his allergies and see if we can get...

Thank you all SO MUCH for your lovely cards. Mine went out late last week and I know I missed a few on the list, I ran out of cards before I got through the list and mostly left off sending to just a few receive-only folks and a few on the regular list whose names I did not recognize. I've gotten a...

I talked to his dermatologist today to see if he can have another Depo shot because he's having a flare-up. Actually, he's been having a flare-up for the last 3 weeks, but it isn't getting as bad as quick as it usually does. I attribute that to his allergy shots. Anyway, the dermatologist TED...

It's been ten days since Frank made his final journey, but it feels like an eternity. I can't believe it hasn't been longer. He's still the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last before I go to sleep. In bed is where I notice his absence the most. He didn't participate a lot in our...

Mark Edwards wrote: I must remember not to let myself be distracted by all the loving and attentive cats who are attempting to help me in the kitchen. I chop up the lettuce and shred the cheese for tacos. I set aside a couple of bowls of lettuce for salads. I set the salad dressing,...

As you might expect, this time of year is hard. I resisted putting up anything Christmas-y around the house until a week ago. I was going to just skip it again. Good excuse, the "kittens" would just destroy it. Well, I put up a nativity and while they watched me place every character, they haven't...

Now I don't know if it's just nerves about tomorrow's visit to the slaughter house, sorry, the dental hospital.... .... but to use a Geordie phrase.. Eeee, aah've got a proper case of the skittors... In other words, I am spending an inordinate amount of time on the great white telephone in the...

To be the man of the house. I think Wayne has definitely got something with his theory about this! Kitty hardly stirs from the fire these days, now it's so cold outside. Being an ex outdoor-only cat she really does prefer food she has caught herself rather than processed cat food, given a...

We have our very shy feral darling Molly, she will barely let me touch her after a year, She will come sleep on my feet if she is quite sure the boys aren't coming home to sleep and that I'm sound asleep. I had overly rambunctious Kayla the eight week old Border puppy out in the yard, Molly...

Well, 'tis my purrday today. Vernon has given me a dozen roses and a radio (needed new radio for the kitchen, it's the only thing that makes the housework bearable). Nathan has just given me the combined Green Day CD/DVD 'Bullet in a Bible' **excellent** and the cats have already supplied a mowsie....

What with Xmas a week away, and all the shopping (especially online) I am up to my butt in boxes and paper, at the moment. THey're downstairs, they're upstairs. I was watching TV, and half-watching Dante jump in and out of a shoe box, and rattle the paper around, when Stinky came in, and it's so...

As a lot of you know I joined the group not that long ago. I wanted to say thank you to everyone for letting me rant, talk my head off, answering my post and helping me when I needed it. I wanted to say a special thanks to all those with the purrs and hugs when we lost our 19 year old precious...

Go to your fabric stash. Get some denim scraps. Make some four inch pillows and stuff them. Add catnip. Sew up the end. Put catnip pillows in fridge for someone elses cats. I thought my crew was going to mutiny. I almost had to kick them out of the room while I finished sewing them after I...

I've been hesitant to write about Speckles - I feel much like the boy who cried "Wolf!!" You'll tire of my purr-pleas if *this* keeps up. Speck was very ill last week; a visit to the vet Wednesday seemed to make it worse. I didn't expect her to last through the weekend. Thursday night she was so...